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| One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children. In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters. There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all. Less than 3% of Nestle's sales are for chocolate. The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph All consumption of alcohol is strictly regulated in Norway, and is only sold through state owned shops called Vinmonopolet. Nevertheless between 25 and 40 % of all alcohol consumed is either smuggled or illegally made at home One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life! A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs. A beard grows an average of 140mm a year A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble 4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year. 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung 4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death. The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 30 meters. The average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime. The average person swallows 8 spiders a year. It only takes 7lbs of pressure to rip your ear off 26 Billion dollars in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years. You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself. On average there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds Big Mac bun. There are 1 million ants for every person in the world. Odds of being killed by a dog- 1 in 700,000 Odds of dying while in the bath tub- 1 in 1,000,000 Odds of being killed by space debris- 1 in 5 billion Odds of being killed by poisoning- 1 in 86,000 Odds of being killed by freezing- 1 in 3 million Odds of being killed by lightening- 1 in 2 million Odds of being killed in a car crash- 1 in 5,000 If you played all of the Beatles' singles and albums that came out between 1962 and 1970 back 2 back it would only last for 10 hours and 33 mins Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music. The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed. Odds of being killed in a tornado- 1 in 2 million Odds of being killed by falling out of bed- 1 in 2 million |